Ipod cannot be updated all the way, WHY

I have restored my ipod and gone throught beginning process with itunes and it updates for a while then it stops and says "Ipod Cannot be updated. The required folder cannot be found" Is it anti virus software? I am about to completely reinstall updator and itunes
Help

I tried it before and I am going to try it again and restore the ipod and see if that does anything. let me know if you think of something else!!!!
"Ipod Cannot be updated. The required folder
cannot be found"
hmmm. that one can sometimes hit people if they've
got a corrupt photo cache:
Photo Sync creates iPod photo Cache
if you delete the existing photo cache, does the
message go away?

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